biography of Oliver, Jr. DICKINSON (1757-1847)

Birth place: Litchfield, CT

Death place: Litchfield, CT

Profession: Amateur portrait painter

Comments: Though himself an amateur artist, Oliver Dickinson is chiefly noted as the father of the miniaturists Anson and Daniel Dickinson (see entries) He died March 23, 1847.

Sources: G&W; C.K. Bolton, Workers with Line and Color in New England"; repro. in Art in America (April 1925), 156."